Announcing Our Power Detroit 2014

June 3, 2014

ANNOUNCING OUR POWER DETROIT 2014

Communities United for a Just Transition

Detroit, MI, June 3, 2014– The
East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC) will host Our
Power Detroit; a 3-day gathering of youth, students and young adults from
frontline communities to strategize on how to scale up youth leadership in
the Environmental-Climate Justice movements and bring about a Just Transition from an exploitative polluting economy
to a just and healthy one.

“We are here.
We have genuine concerns about what’s going on in our community. We want to
feel empowered and educate other people to combat climate injustices.” -Khafre
Sims Bey, Young Educators Alliance, Age: 15

History and experience have taught us that rather
than reactively addressing injustices as they arise, we must work to be
proactive at co-creating —with impacted people and communities— a transition
from a deadly, destructive, dirty economy and fight for the systems,
relationships and structures of a ecologically, economically resilient future. The
Our Power Detroit gathering will bring together Millennials in Detroit and from
around the country to not only highlight Detroit’s victories and struggles, but
coordinate community-led action strategies and discuss what their role can and
should be among Environmental-Climate Justice movements throughout the nation.

The
Our Power Campaign was developed by the Climate Justice Alliance to address the
root causes of the climate crisis while creating meaningful work and
livelihoods for a majority of the 17 million unemployed people in the US.

Our Power gatheringsare an important component of the
Our Power Campaign; highlighting “Hot Spot” communities that are home
to key grassroots groups who are poised to take on the extreme energy interests
while creating grassroots solutions for a just transition that serves our communities, heals the
planet, and preserves our cultures.